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...this way some particular man by not conferring it, but it was getting to be a necessity, and it is not probable that there would ever come a better time than the present to make this stand. The position of the overseers, we can imagine, is that the whole system of honorary degrees, except in exceptionable cases, is based on rather questionable grounds, and particularly is it so in the case of conferring them upon any one who may happen to hold a high office. It is claimed that this is done in honor to the people who are represented...
...rooms at any price. The lodging houses in which rooms can be obtained at all are in general cheap wooden structures of ancient date, low studded, small and dingy; and yet the rent of a fifteen-foot room in one of these structures is often as much as a whole house of similar pattern would let for anywhere else in the suburbs...
...Yale men was absolutely faultless. Jones' pitching was effective, Hubbard's catching and throwing to bases was perfect, Hopkins and Terry vied with each other in seeing which could put in the best work in the field. The batting was heavy and the base-running sharp. The whole nine played to win and it won. Harvard played a good game, but not a good enough game to beat such a nine as she had to face Saturday. The batting was weak except in the fourth inning when we earned one single run. The fielding was good, although two or three...
...that the examination period is approaching again, the vexed question arises: Cannot some regular method of marking be devised, which all the instructors in each freshman department may use. The marking system, which is unfair enough throughout the whole college, is particularly unfair in the case of the freshman year. It so happens that, while several sections pursue the same subject and have an equal amount of knowledge, one division of them is subjected to a very hard examination and the other to an easy one; the former being marked freely, so as to allow nearly every one to pass...
...Columbia bicycle prize cup offered by the Pope Manufacturing Company, to be competed for in amateur twenty-mile bicycle races, is in the form of a solid silver horn, resting at one part of it on a bronze pedestal and steadied by two dragon's legs, the whole standing about fifteen inches high. The cup is in the general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with...